fort monroe

US Army Field Artillery
School and Fort Sill

Fort Sill, Oklahoma

17 September 2002

Change Agent for
Transformation

* Get the message out that it isn't
"...Business as Usual..."

* Raw edges and raw nerves

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GEN(Ret) Powell -
Philosophy

* "Avoid having your ego so close to
your position that when your
position falls, your ego goes with
it."

* "It ain't as bad as you think. It will
look better in the morning ..."

* "Don't take counsel from your fears
or Nay Sayers."

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Historical Changes

* DOES = Evaluation

• DOTD = Training

• DOES + DOTD = DTE minus TD

* DTE + Training Developments =
WIDD

• WIDD: Divided into FDIC & QA

* QA stood up 1 Oct 2001

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Continuity In Spite of

Change

* Evaluation at Sill never went away

- Affiliation = Accreditation

- Internal Evaluations

- Special Studies for Leadership

* Evaluation personnel never went
away

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Integration of Title Xls

* Title Xls expertise leveraged

- 1996: Converted 29/29 enlisted
courses to TATs Courseware

- 1997: Began multimedia
development of courses in
support of Distributed Learning

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Addition of Evaluation

Slots

* 1997 MG Ernst, DCST, authorized
additional NCO Evaluators.

* Audit Trail shows where they went.

- 3 APG, Eustis

- 4 AVLOG, Leavenworth

- 5 Bliss, Huachuca

- 6 Gordon, Lee, McClellan

- 7 Benning, Music School, Rucker, Sill

- 8 Knox

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FA Evaluation Program

* Technical and Educational Advisor to
the Leadership

* Value added to Commandant's
programs

* QA personnel strengths

- Education (1750s)

- Military experience (1712s & Green
Suits)

- ORSA (1515)

- Previous evaluation/TD expertise

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QA Staff

* Director

* Administrative Assistant

* 1750 Instructional System Specialists

* 1515 ORSA

* 1712 Training Specialists

* Title Xls (1 Major and 4 Enlisted)

* Evaluation NCOs

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Matrix-Managed

* Teams formed to complete an action

* Members all have different strengths

* Staff does not become stagnant

* Opportunity for all to succeed

* Chief today: member tomorrow

* Coop with training developers &
instructors

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Workload

Self-Assessments

- Captain Career Course

- Basic Officer Leader Course

- Warrant Officer Basic and
Advanced

- 29 Enlisted Courses

- 10 Functional Courses

Workload (Cont)

* Accredit 7 TASS regions

- Accreditation

- Assistance visits

- Work waivers and issues

- Oversee Instructor Certification

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Workload (Cont)

Participate on teams

- Job & task analyses

- Media analyses and design

- Product evaluations

- POIs

• Lesson Plans

• Exams

• Course Management Plans

Workload (Cont)

Strategic Readiness System

- Trained skilled soldiers. Marines &
leaders

• Surveys

• Conferences

Sound Business Practice: Standing up QAO
Distributed Learning

- Development

- Delivery

Relationship With
Regions

* Mutual respect

* Holistic approach to evaluation

* Help them help themselves

* No "show dogging"

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Qualities of a Team

Chief

* Fully trained

* People skills

* Understand regulations

* Evaluation against standards

* Can answer the 2^ question

* Can brief

* Can write a report at the GO level

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Role of The Team Chief

* Director of the play

* Determines at the site

- What to look at

- Who will do it

- To what extent

* Initial briefing/Out briefing

* IPRs

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Role of The Team Chief

(Cont)

• Mediate between team members
and/or staff at the site

* Determines what to do as
deficiencies are found

- On-the-spot correction

- Will the student benefit if
something changes immediately?

- Safety issues: reports to CDR
immediately

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Team Chiefs

* Region A:

* Region B/C:

* Region D:

* Region E:

* Region F:

* Region G:

Mr. Saul
Mr. Woodham
SFC Johnson TitMkl
SFC Stephens Title XI
Mr. Carr
Mrs. Dorrell

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Role of The
Accreditation Chief

* Plans for assistance &
accreditation visits

- Dates

- Length of visit

- Number & kind of personnel

* Avoids a "cookie cutter" approach

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Visits

* Time spent on visits

- Inactive duty training (IDT) 2X2

- Annual training (AT) 3X3

* No need for the proponent team to
camp

* Get in, get going, get out

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Role of BN Title XI

* Constant assessment

* Talks to proponent often

* Review courseware

* Conduit for instructor certification

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Role of FA Proponent
Title Xls

* Develop TATS courseware

* Develop multimedia for TATS courseware

* Course managers

- Cradle-to-grave look at courseware -
does it fit the regions?

* Team Chiefs

* Support of job & task analyses groups

* Serve on board for instructor certification

* Organized and ran Title XI conferences

* Helped certify NG evaluators on teams

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Creative Visualization

* It works.

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In Conclusion

* Remain calm. Be kind.

* Have a Vision. Be demanding.

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